To begin, I think my team is well balanced. I know he has Kobe Bryant, but honestly, you have to look past that. Outside of him, what else is there? Granger has his moments, Miller is an alright PG, and Bogut is a good C, but Boozer is terrible. There isn't that much scoring to rely on outside of Kobe. Essentially, I'll be playing 5 on 4 every time Boozer is in the game. You can't trust someone that didn't show up in last year's playoffs in a Redraft Finals matchup.

PG match up:
Chauncey Billups (63) vs Andre Miller (62)

-This would be a good match up. Both are getting up their in age, but Billups has the edge here. He's known for his big shots, and being a great defender. I'm just not worried about Andre Miller being their point guard alongside Kobe.

-Granted, Granger is pretty good, but Durant is arguably the best scorer in the NBA right now. Since Durant doesn't have a height advantage here like he has throughout the playoffs, it might be a little harder for him to score, but I wouldn't doubt that Danny Granger would necessarily "stop" him. Durant is Durant. I have this advantage.

-Did you watch Carlos Boozer last year? He was terrible. Tim Duncan may be getting older, but he can still contribute on any playoff team, where Boozer didn't even show up in the playoffs last year. Duncan has shown to be a legit defender as well, so there's no question I have the advantage here.

-Both of these guys are very good at their positions. Both have proved that they're defensive specialists and are definitely a reason why these two teams are still fighting for the title. Bogut has been a bit more dominant (for lack of a better word) in his career, and has a small height advantage on Noah, so they get the slight advantage.

Edge: Middletown slightly

His bench isn't very good and I have great compliments to all of my starters. In the case that Kobe starts destroying DeRozan, I would switch Durant on to Kobe so he could slow him up a little more. Having a 3-inch height advantage would do the trick. Sure Kobe would still score, but it would be A LOT harder. This is a great match up between two teams that deserve to be here. I wish Middletown luck throughout the way, and hope to draw up a few arguments along the way. Thank you for taking your time to read my write up and for those who voted for me, thank you as well.

Overall: Congrats to the Poughkeepsie for getting lucky (Haha). Well overall I like my chances against this team. I feel has my team has more threats all around.
PG match up:
Chauncey Billups (63) vs J.J Barea (60)

-For this matchup I changed up my starting line up. I feel has Barea gives me a big edge when on offense because he will run run run all round Billups. Who everybody saw has lost a step the past years. Also one big reason why I will put Barea in is too stop those spot up 3s Billups loves to throw up. Barea will put pressure on Billups all up the court to force him to move around without the ball to get shots up. But Billups does have the weight and height against him so I do think if he post him up he will struggle but I would send him help to defend that

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SG match up:
DeMar DeRozan (67) vs Kobe Bryant (66)

-Everyone knows that Kobe will always get his points regardless. DeMar is great defender but Kobe will be Kobe and score. On defense Kobe is a good defender in his own right, Demar is not a scorer so I dont see much trouble with him there.

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SF match up:
Kevin Durant (69) vs Danny Granger (68)

- This is an interesting match up. Two good scorers going head to head. Danny is solid on defense and I think can cause trouble to Kevin in certain situations. But like Kobe Durant will get his points and score. There is nothing you can do about that.

-This match up here is hard to judge. Mainly because Boozer can shoot the mid range bucket and Noah is a great defender. I think what will decide this match up is if Boozer is on that night when shooting.

-Tim Duncan is one of the best ever to play. But sadly this is not 3-4 years ago, it now. I think Boguts length will cause trouble for Tim and on offense Bogut will make Tim work a lot because he can shoot the mid range shots and post up. Tim has regressed over the past years; I dont see him matching up to Bogut.

I think I win this matchup. If you take out Durant I dont see any scoring threat there. On my team you cant double one guy because the other would put up 20 points on you easily. My team will score and his team will have trouble keeping up scoring wise.

Thank you all for voting for me the past weeks. I really appreciate it! May you continue to vote for me :)

Good luck to both teams.

knicks=love

12-17-2011, 06:24 PM

KC stealing my format of the write up :pity:

knicks=love

12-17-2011, 06:29 PM

if durant isn't scoring, duncan and billups will step up. billups can still score even though he's older, and i still think billups is a better PG than barea. barea was a backup for the mavs and was a spark off the bench. he's not capable of starting. i can still put durant on kobe and bring mayo into the game to guard granger. kobe would have a much harder time shooting over durant and his lanky self.

KnicksorBust

12-17-2011, 08:42 PM

Nice job by Middletown but I'm going with Poughkeepsie. I like their writeup more and appreciate their balance.

knicks_champ

12-17-2011, 09:21 PM

KC stealing my format of the write up :pity:

LMAO! I didn't have time to write one up good. Just had to copy the first one I saw from last round. haha :p

knicks=love

12-17-2011, 09:59 PM

LMAO! I didn't have time to write one up good. Just had to copy the first one I saw from last round. haha :p

:pity:

knicks=love

12-18-2011, 01:19 PM

bump

knicks=love

12-18-2011, 10:20 PM

bump. vote people! it's the finals!

BlondeBomber41

12-19-2011, 12:10 AM

I love how Poughkeepsie says Middletown doesn't have a very good bench... Andre Miller or JJ Barea, Stephen Jackson, Marcus Thornton, DeAndre Jordan, JJ Hickson, Shawne Williams, Beno Udrih... I can't imagine there is a team in your leauge with a better bench than that.

knicks=love

12-19-2011, 01:25 AM

there were only 16 teams in the whole redraft.

BlondeBomber41

12-19-2011, 03:47 AM

Still doesn't change the fact it's a pretty damn good bench.

knicks=love

12-19-2011, 05:57 PM

bump. 20 votes in a finals match up will not cut it for me :D

NYKalltheway

12-19-2011, 07:23 PM

I have a feeling this would have had more votes in the Knicks forum.. oh well, it was your choice to have it here :)

knicks=love

12-19-2011, 08:28 PM

whatever. i didn't care where it was, and at the time, the lockout was still going on and the knicks forum was dead.

knicks=love

12-20-2011, 01:39 PM

bump

knicks_champ

12-20-2011, 05:51 PM

Woah! I'm making a comeback! Haha

My face expression in sig ;)

knicks_champ

12-21-2011, 03:14 AM

Bump for the night

NYKalltheway

12-21-2011, 05:55 AM

I think this redraft made it clear that NBA fans are not ready for stacked teams all over :p

knicks=love

12-21-2011, 03:21 PM

i always get a nice, comfortable lead to begin the matchup and then the other team makes a comeback out of no where! wtf!

knicks_champ

12-22-2011, 09:23 PM

Bump

NYKalltheway

12-22-2011, 09:39 PM

bump bump bump but no discussions... :shrug:
In case of a draw in the voting, I think we should have the re-vote in the Knicks forum

knicks=love

12-22-2011, 10:33 PM

bump bump bump but no discussions... :shrug:
In case of a draw in the voting, I think we should have the re-vote in the Knicks forum

agreed. i like that idea. those guys would actually vote, and it could be stickied ;) (yo knicks_champ, rig it so we can get it to the knicks forum :p)

knicks_champ

12-23-2011, 02:08 AM

Haha... if it's a tie then I'm laugh because every time I'm about to win something happens.

knicks=love

12-23-2011, 02:12 AM

Haha... if it's a tie then I'm laugh because every time I'm about to win something happens.

don't worry, every time i ****ing get a nice comfortable lead, posters decide to give the other guy a lead to **** me over.

knicks=love

12-23-2011, 02:13 AM

to the voters:

do you really want someone who cheated on his wife and slept with 105 women to win a redraft championship? and i'm not talking about kobe ;)

yes i am.

knicks_champ

12-23-2011, 05:52 PM

to the voters:

do you really want someone who cheated on his wife and slept with 105 women to win a redraft championship? and i'm not talking about kobe ;)